A PAUBHA DEPICTING LAKSHACHAITYA Nepal, Dated by inscription to 1644
depicting the adoration of a brick-built chaitya in the Kathmandu Valley, with Amitabha Buddha seated within a niche, Sariputra and Maudgalyayana to either side holding Patra and khakkhara staff, a Vajracharya below on the left and a devotee to the right, both making offerings, with myriad stupa throughout, Chandra and Surya seated above, with the Five Tathagatas in the upper register, a Vajracharya performing Homa puja with devotees and donor family in lower registers
26 3/16 by 17 1/2 in. (66.5 by 44.5 cm)
26 3/16 by 17 1/2 in. (66.5 by 44.5 cm)
Details
- Title : A PAUBHA DEPICTING LAKSHACHAITYA Nepal, Dated by inscription to 1644
- Classification : Painting
- Dimension : 26 3/16 by 17 1/2 in. (66.5 by 44.5 cm)
- Accession No : LOT 905
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Collection : Sotheby’s
- Status : SOLD AT: THE RICHARD R. & MAGDALENA ERNST COLLECTION OF HIMALAYAN ART 22 MARCH 2018 | 10:00 AM EDT NEW YORK
- ESTIMATE : 15,000 — 20,000 USD
- LOT SOLD : 9,375 USD
- CATALOGUE NOTE : Compare a Dharmadhatu Stupa paubha dated 1653, formerly in the Jucker Collection, see Sotheby’s New York, March 28, 2006, lot 10; and compare the painting style with a ca. 1650 Abhisarika Nayika from a ragamala series in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, see Pratapaditya Pal, The Arts of Nepal: Painting, Leiden, 1978, pl. 181.